In Daniel the second chapter, we have to find out what this mountain was, which was on fire. The 35th verse of the 2nd chapter, gives us understanding. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors and the wind carried them away, that no place be found for them. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. The 45th verse, tells us that the stone was cut out of a mountain without hands and became a mountain and filled the whole earth. There are two testaments in the Word of God (Old Testament and New Testament), two tabernacles or temples built and two mountains---Mt. Sinai and Mt Zion.

In the 12th chapter of Hebrews Paul writes, you are not come to that mount that cannot be touched, you are come to Mt. Zion. Daniel said that the stone was cut out of the mountain and became a mountain when the body of Christ, the Church of the living God, made the new mountain, the mountain of the Lord’s House and it filled all the earth.

God said, “I am going to bring earth and heaven together.” The day the baby was born in Bethlehem, His father was in heaven, and His mother was on earth, and He brought heaven and earth together, and the babe was born not of the will of man. What a mystery! He that made the first woman---was born of her. Talk about condescending. He stooped when He was born of a creature he had made. It reminds us of the parable of the Good Samaritan.

THE BEAUTIFUL PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN

In the 10th chapter of Luke, a lawyer tried to tempt Christ as to whom his neighbor was and Jesus taught him who his neighbor was and taught us the truth. He showed us man’s fallen condition. He went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. From a holy state to a fallen one, and on the way he met the very devil and sin, that robbed him of his raiment and left him half dead. When sin gets done with you, you’re half dead. You’re alive physically, but dead spiritually. A priest came along and he wouldn’t help him. But, it wasn’t a question of “wouldn’t help him---He couldn’t help him. The old law was weak through the flesh. He came by and looked on him and said, “You’re a sinner”, and kept right on going, because the law could not help him. The next who came by, was a Levite, representing the Levitical law, and he came down closer and taught him of sin offerings and peace offerings and that sin cost something and that it would take a terrible price to pay for his sins.

I’ve said, that back under the law they didn’t sin freely like the people do today. When you sinned back under the old law, it cost you the best heifer you had. Why, if they’d broken the law and transgressed as freely as men sin today, they would’ve soon been out of the cattle business. The devil has the people feeling that they are living under grace, now, and are freer to sin or not as they choose. In reality, sin costs more today than it did back then. Sinning, today, is against the blood of Jesus Christ. The Levitical law, taught a peace offering---and sacrifices could not touch him.

Then, along came a good Samaritan. He was a man that owed the Jew nothing. He came right down where he was. This is why Christ had to be born of a woman. He had to come down to the very human plane we are on and he poured in the oil and the wine and healed up the wounds. The oil and the wine will heal the sin business. But he didn’t leave him there. If he had left him there, he would have been beaten and bruised again. But the Word of God says he picked him up and put him on his own beast. What does this mean? The same power that upholds Christ, is today upholding us. The same way, Christ overcame sin, we can overcome sin. Even the very power that raised Christ from the dead is the same power, which Paul declared when he said: “We walk in the newness of life.” But he didn’t stop there. He brought him to an inn and said to the host, “here are two pence. That will take care of him till I come again.”

But what’s the inn? It’s the Church, the body of Christ. That’s the only place Christ leads anybody here on the earth when they get saved. Christ never led any man to join an organization---only men lead people to join earthly institutions. He brought him to an inn and said to the host, “Take care of him.”

Let’s get this message today: The new born babes are on our hands. This old complacency where men are seeking their own convenience and forgetting about the new converts, is also not God’ plan. These babes in Christ are on our hands. He brought him to the host and laid him there before him and said, “Here are two pence. That will take care of him till I come again, and anything else you spend; when I come again, I’ll repay you.” How do we know this was the Church? What are the two pence? What does it take to keep God’s people till He comes again? It takes two pence---the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit.

Again we read, he said the kingdom is like a man that went away to a far country, but before he went he called his servants and gave them his goods. We have the same goods that Jesus gave the people then. What did he give them? He gave them the Word and the Spirit, the same as he gave all the way through. Thank God, He has delivered unto us, (the Church) His goods.

Well, what more can we spend than the Word and the Spirit? We can spend our bodies in service for Him. He told us, if we wore this one out in service to Him, He’s going to give us a new one, when He comes again. Thank God.

The stone was cut out of Mount Sinai and it became a mountain. When did that stone become a mountain? It became a mountain on the day of Pentecost. After Christ rose from the dead, went up to the right hand of God, sent His Holy Spirit, organized the Body of Christ, (the Church) gave her power and understanding---then, that stone became a mountain.

GOD’S HOUSE ESTABLISHED IN THESE LAST DAYS

In the second chapter of Isaiah, we read, “It will come to pass in these last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established in the top of the mountain and all nations, the black, the white, the red and yellow will flow into it.” The government of our great land and movements of men are trying to pound men together. They’re fighting across the tables they sit around, and exchanging their own opinions of the whole matter. Man never did have a law, and never will have, that will make a white man respect a black one, or a black man respect a white one. But God has a law the will make them love one another and flow together.

Brethren, we will have to acknowledge the fact, that the thing most needed, is to have the wine press set up. We cannot have unity until we’re liquidized. Rev. 14, tells us all about the wine press and how God will send men to gather the clusters, (God’s people) hanging on the vines in Babylon---gather them off and harvest the earth, because the grapes are ripe.

And then, what does he do? He brings them to Zion and puts them in the wine press. Is this the wine press? Jesus said: “Sanctify them through thy truth, thy Word is truth.” He puts us in the wine press, and puts the squeeze on us. Then, the juice of all the grapes is squeezed out and flows together as one. When we get liquidized, you can’t tell one grape from another. When God unifies us, there’s no man can make grapes out of us again. You can’t legislate them in, you can’t force them, but they are flowing together. It makes no difference what the color is. They flow together (in Mount Zion) with love and care for each other.

This is the greatest day the Church has existed in. We, (as the children of the King) through the leading of the Holy Spirit, have the answer to the problems that are concerning our national leaders. They have no answer; they’re in distress. But we have the answer. We have the message the whole world needs, today; the only thing that will bring all nations together in peace and unity before God. It’s found right in the truth of this very seal (or portion of scripture) we’re studying. We were called to Louisiana to preach the Word, down there. Did we preach this unity, there in the very heart of the southland? Yes. God has promised, if we’ll be true to Him, no one could touch a hair of our head, unless he permitted it. They were raising money to send to Africa to help the black man find Christ. But in that very city they caused him, (by their customs) to have to step off the sidewalk, when a white man came along. Where, then, was their Christian love for the soul of the black man?

One night, there were several ministers there, and about four of them stood up and “talked back to me”. They said, “You’ve come down here, trying to change in a week’s meeting, what it took fifty years or more to establish as a custom.” But I answered: “The Word of God is quick! It may have taken sixty years to get that old practice in your hearts, but God can take it out in six seconds, if you’ll meet the conditions.” I’m talking now, about something the wind will carry away (the Holy Spirit will clean it up). If you’ll let the wind carry it away, you won’t be troubled with it anymore. Because, there’s no place found in the true Church of God, for race prejudice or respect of persons, because it’s sin. You’ll never get the white and the Black together, by negotiation. The need is, a real baptism of the Holy Ghost, that will put them on the same level and cause them to love one another. Another minister stood up and said, “You’re handling a subject that’s too big for you.” President Eisenhower was our president then, so he said: “Eisenhower can’t handle it and you’re trying it.” I replied, “I have a different instrument then he has. This instrument (the Word and the Spirit) will handle it.”

Yes, there are some things for which there is no place found, in the true Church of God. How did they get in our midst? Too much letting up, on old fashion preaching, has let these things creep in. It’s simple carnal pride; and what have we to be proud about?

A brother preached a sermon, dealing with worldliness. He said that an old peacock strutted because of her feathers, and that, if her feathers were all pulled out, it would take the strut out of her. When he was through preaching, my father went out at the back of the tabernacle and met him, saying, “I can’t go along with you this morning. You may know the church doctrine, but you know nothing about peacocks. It’s the nature of a peacock to strut. You can pull out all her feathers and she’ll put up the stubs and strut. It’s simply her nature.

Worldliness is a heart condition, but in the true Church of the living God, there’s no place found for it.

Well, the stone became a mountain and filled the whole earth. We’re now speaking of the mountain on fire. For the mountain on fire, was the Church of the living God. How did it get on fire? It got on fire by the preaching of the early days of history---the preaching of hail and fire. Some of you have been enjoying the good spirit in the camp meeting. How did we get it? We got it by hail, fire and blood. That will make a fire. That’s what set the mountain on fire and it will set the church on fire, yet. Go into some of these dry atmospheres, and if you can get on the program and be under the anointing of God and start preaching old time Bible truth, the first thing you know, the fire will begin to burn. [ The End ]